Business Logs on 451 Press
A guest post by Mike Rundle on Business Logs talks about 451 Press’ recent “Largest Blog Network” announcement, and challenges this quantity-based milestone.
An excerpt:
There’s nothing inherently wrong with having a large cache of sites at your disposal, but isn’t it easy to add more sites? The marginal cost of adding another blog is very low because you find a writer and pay them to start writing. You drop them into your default template with some colors switched out and away they go. You are now PREVIOUS_SIZE++.But what about quality?
Mike goes on to compare 451 Press to another blogosphere heavyweight, b5media:
b5media is another traditional-type blog network, but they rank higher on the quality scale than 451 Press does because they’ve stopped adding “blogs every week” like 451 Press but seem to be working harder on the quality end of the spectrum instead of just increasing girth on the quantity end.
Read the full article on Business Logs.
Mike is dead on balls accurate with this one.
451Press is so busy concentrating on the biggest, they compromise quality over quantity. There’s a reason 451Press has a really high turnover rate, it’s because their bloggers are slaving away for less than a dollar each month. After earning .60 for hours worth of work each month I had to part company.
They’re disorganized, wet behind the ears and need to concentrate more of their efforts on their bloggers and their existing blogs. It makes absolutely no sense to me that bloggers earn less than a cup of coffee each month yet they pour all their money into more and more blogs. They don’t do anything to promote and their advertisers suck. They’re very poor communicators as well.
They could take a lesson from places such as b5 or Know More Media.
Words by Kat on August 6, 2007 at 4:20 am | #
Late to this article but I could not agree more with Mike and Kat. I wrote for 451 for nearly two months and made less than $2, which I never even saw. b5 truly has their act together and are a joy to work for.
Words by Heather on September 22, 2007 at 12:46 am | #